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Stop Talking IPs. Start Talking Business.
Simplify Security Policy Decisions
with BTA’s Policy Automation Engine
with BTA’s Policy Automation Engine
Most organizations don’t struggle from lack of tools, they struggle because the business can’t validate what it can’t read. PAE turns raw security data into clear business intent and enforces it across every layer.
Why Do Businesses Need PAE?
If your organization operates with legacy workloads, distributed teams, or years of accumulated firewall rules, the answer is almost always yes. Your security team may be managing more than 10,000 firewall rules while the business relies on over 100 applications, yet almost no one can clearly explain how these systems connect - or whether they should.
This disconnect is the hidden root of:
Slow or stalled application deployments
Failed or stressful audits
Misaligned segmentation initiatives
Over-permissive rules no one will risk removing
Inconsistent Zero Trust execution
Inability to meet cyber-insurance requirements
GRC audit readiness gaps
Teams stretched thin by manual validation
The Technical Reality:
An engineer sees a flow like:
10.5.10.12 (tcp/1433) → 10.20.30.5
10.5.10.12 (tcp/1433) → 10.20.30.5
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The Business Reality:
The Finance Director only knows:
“Billing App needs to talk to Customer Database.”
“Billing App needs to talk to Customer Database.”
They can’t confirm it. They can’t challenge it. They can’t own it.
And it’s the #1 blocker preventing organizations from becoming secure, compliant, and operationally agile.
How PAE Fixes What Tools Alone Can’t
PAE bridges your visibility tools, Application Dependency Mapping (ADM) platforms, and tagging systems with the people who need to approve risk. It automates the entire translation and approval workflow - turning technical flows into clear business decisions in four steps.
PAE connects to your visibility tools to capture the accurate “ground truth” of all traffic flows across applications, workloads, and environments.
(The "Rosetta Stone"):
This is the magic. PAE automatically maps cryptic IPs and ports to the human-readable names you already use in your CMDB or tagging systems:
10.5.10.12 becomes [App: BillingPortal-Prod]
10.20.30.5 becomes [Owner: Finance]
tcp/1433 becomes [Data: Customer-PII]
PAE auto-generates a simple, human-readable workflow:
"The 'BillingPortal-Prod' app is requesting access to 'Customer-PII' data. Is this required for its business function?"
When the business owner clicks 'Attest', PAE translates that single business approval into the correct, hierarchical policies and deploys them to all your enforcement points - from the data center firewall to the eBPF agent on the workload.
How the Policy Automation Engine Works - and What You Gain From It
Benefit: Solve Your Policy Technical Debt
PAE validates rules against the owners who rely on them, eliminating years of accumulated firewall clutter and ambiguous policies.
Benefit: Pass Audits in Hours - Not Weeks
Every policy is tied to a named business owner with full attestation logs, making audit readiness continuous instead of reactive.
Benefit: Go From a 2-Month “No” to a 1-Day “Yes”
Approvals shift from multi-team bottlenecks to simple business-driven decisions, accelerating deployments and reducing friction.
Benefit: Allow the Business to Own the Risk
Application and data owners finally get visibility into what their systems connect to - and why - shifting risk decisions from IT guesswork to shared accountability.
Real-time analytics and automation allow PAE to optimize system performance and enforce adaptive security. Policies evolve to address emerging threats dynamically.
Cisco Partnership Advantage
From seamless integration to optimized infrastructure performance, Cisco solutions like Secure Firewall and ISE ensure robust protection, compliance, and threat prevention for your critical assets.
Why Choose BTA for Policy Automation?
BTA’s Policy Automation Engine (PAE) enables businesses to automate, scale, and secure IT operations confidently. With over 1,000 successful projects, PAE streamlines workflows, enforces Zero Trust principles, and provides real-time insights—empowering organizations to focus on growth, not complexity.
Intelligent Automation: PAE accelerates policy creation, deployment, and enforcement, simplifying IT operations and reducing effort.
Proven Expertise: Our mastery of Zero Trust frameworks, data center optimization, and automation ensures secure, scalable, and compliant environments.
Zero Trust Segmentation: Integrated segmentation protects assets across all layers, from perimeter firewalls to micro and process levels.
Tailored Guidance: We align security strategies with your business goals, offering expert advisory and customized training to empower your team and ensure lasting success.
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Operations for Businesses Like Yours.
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CASE STUDY
Enabling Zero Trust with Micro-Segmentation and Policy Automation
Discover how a global financial organization enhanced its cybersecurity with Zero Trust and micro-segmentation during an IT migration. Learn how Cisco Secure Workload and BTA’s Architect Explorer™ streamlined policy management and improved compliance by 70%.